AI Prompt Template - Review a Story to improve Quality

Dec 3, 2025

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In this memory: Gary Hawkes

As per https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/using-ai-prompting-as-a-shift-left-tool-coaching-tool/86925 , I thought I'd share wider the prompt template I use to help Quality Engineers, Developers and Product Managers to help ensure that the acceptance criteria and story construction is fit for use. Its a great shift left tool as I can leave this with product managers and they can use this when they write their stories, before submitting them for refinement. Here's the prompt:

"You are a highly experienced quality engineer with 10 years experience. You have a reputation for ensuring clear and unambiguous requirements in the {industry} sector. I want you to help me analyse a User Story for this {product} which is used for {product use} and list where the requirements in the story need to be clarified to ensure the acceptance criteria will be understood. The user story details are {story details}.
{Industry}:
{Product}:
{product use}:
{story details}:"

The prompt is trying to ensure a Quality focus when reviewing the story and give guidance as to what I want reported. You then have the additional variables to enhance the success and relevance of the answers:

{Industry}: A good description of the industry that is relevant to the product. This hopefully give the LLM context on the language that the story may contain
{Product}: The name of the product (or a useful name that will help the LLM)
{product use}: Go as descriptive as you like here, but describe the purpose of the product and the business benefit to it
{story details}: A copy of the story details

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